Archive for the ‘Email’ Category

ISPConfig 2: External mailserver setting does not work

Friday, August 21, 2009 posted by admin

Problem: I have set the website to external mailserver in ISPConfig but emails get still delivered to the local server.

Solution: Set all co-domains of this website to external mailserver too. You find the external mailserver setting on the options tab of every co-domain.

Postfix: “queue file write error”

Friday, August 21, 2009 posted by admin

If you get an error like:

Aug 21 12:41:03 webb4 postfix/sendmail[11234]: fatal: web1_user(12967): queue file write error

in your mail log, then the vale for message_size_limit in postfix main.cf is too low. Edit postfix main.cf:

vi /etc/postfix/main.cf

and set the message size limit to a higher value. E.g.

mesage_size_limit = 900000000

and restart postfix:

/etc/init.d/postfix restart

If there is no message_size_limit set in main.cf, just add the line.

How can an email user in ISPConfig 3 change his password?

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 posted by Till

To allow email users in ISPConfig 3 that do not have a client login to change their password, you can use one of these webmail plugins:

Plugin for roundcube:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37077

Plugin for Squirrelmail:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35297

Tutorial about installing the squirrelmail plugin:

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-configure-squirrelmail-to-allow-users-to-change-their-email-passwords-on-an-ispconfig-3-server

This articles describes the renewal of SSL certificates for courier pop3 and imap server. This is nescessary e.g. when the certificates are expired or contain the wrong hostname.

First delete the exsiting certificates:

rm -f /etc/courier/imapd.pem
rm -f /etc/courier/pop3d.pem

Then edit the template that contains the details for the ecrtificates so that the hostname in the certificate matches the hsotanme of your server and that the email address matches your postmaster email address:

vi /etc/courier/imapd.cnf
vi /etc/courier/pop3d.cnf

and create the new certificates:

mkimapdcert
mkpop3dcert

Courier pop3 and imap have to be restarted so they pick up the new ecrtificates:

/etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl restart
/etc/init.d/courier-pop-ssl restart

Please check if the domain of the users that receives all emails is the same as the domain $mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf. If this is the case, change $mydomain and run

postfix reload

on the shell.

You should never enter a domain that is used for a virtual site on the server as $mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf!

Which virus- and Spam scanner is used by ISPConfig 3

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 posted by Till

ISPConfig 3 uses ClamAV (http://www.clamav.net) as virus scanner and spamassassin as spam scanner. Amavisd-new is used as content filter.

Which virus scanner is used by ISPConfig 2

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 posted by Till

ISPConfig 2 uses ClamAV (http://www.clamav.net) as virus scanner and the E-mail Sanitizer (http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html) as content filter.